Danny Mayer wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Heiko, [] >> One question is whether, on Vista, the installer should provide the >> option of opening port 123/udp to the outside world so that systems >> can be monitored or managed? It would be nice to have it in the >> installer, with the default off, although I can also see the >> viewpoint which says leave to a separate security action. I.e. >> those who need to do it should take positive action to do it. >> > > I recommend that you don't do that. It should be a conscious decision > by the person installing it and should be done separately. In any > case some things would need to be done outside of the system. > > Danny
Agreed, Danny. Nothing needs to be done "outside the system" though, at least not on the network here. Perhaps if you want to allow access from the world-wide-Internet - but I wouldn't recommend that. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
